Re: Base Conversion Finally Came Up?

JRS: In article <opr5susxwe5vklcq (AT) news-text (DOT) blueyonder.co.uk>, seen in
news:comp.lang.javascript, Michael Winter <M.Winter (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.invali
d> posted at Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:43:06 :

On 1 Apr 2004 12:36:14 -0800, Gord <nov (AT) eastontario (DOT) com> wrote:

[snip]

Anyone out there interested in converting that page to a form method
conversion display from base n to base10 to base m?

m ---> 10 ---> n
n ---> 10 ---> m

I'm fairly sure Dr Stockton has already done that.

Well, it's naive to assume that one must go via base ten; otherwise,
<URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/js-maths.htm#Base> appears to handle
everything for which the numerical value is reasonable.

Converting non-integers, or where Number is inadequate, seems
unreasonable.

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